rot13 (was RE: Who is the Proper authorities?)

[Steen, Glenn]

Stef Morrell wrote:
> Glenn wrote:
>> 
>> I gather you don't remember the good/bad old days when
>> everyone rot13'd (or "ceasar-rolled") every message
>> containing even the slightest expletive or minorly offensive
>> statement... As you'll see once you've decoded the above, JK
>> and I are just reminiscing (boy do I feel like a very old
>> middle-aged man today... wait, eh, that's what I am.... Sigh, that's
>> depressing). 
>> 
> 
> On the contrary, I remember only too well. I imagine it's still used
> in the scary devil monastery (alt.sysadmin.recovery), a place I've not
> visited in a very long time. Chicken waving is a "code word" used on
> that group. I could tell you what it means, but I'd have to kill you.
> 
> See http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sysadmin-recovery/ for further
> illumination.
> 
> *grins* Like you, I at once realised the message contained pgp13 ;)
> encoded text.
> 
> Takes me back a couple of decades too...
> 
> It's Down... not across.
> 
> Stef
> Stefan Morrell          | Director
> Tel: 0870 365 2813      | Level 5 Internet Ltd
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> stef at l5net.net          | stef at aoc-uk.com
> 
Ah, we'll settle for "bad old days" then:-). Had actually forgotten
about
alt.sysadmin.* ... Along with a lot of other useless things (col. adv,
simula/sintran, apl etc etc).

-- Glenn

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